@wssy: "Are we allowed to assume that all the words in the dictionary have the 
same casing?
-Wesley Sy (20219991)"
    @bstpierr: "On Jun 23, 9:47 pm, Wesley Samuel Sy <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
I wouldn't assume that the words given in the dictionary file are all
same case. It smells too much like a test case to me."
    @ademers: "It says in the assignment our spellchecker will be case sensitive. That 
is, PIE and pie are two different entities in the dictionary.
<quote>"
    @wssy: "I may have misread it, but I thought it said that our spell-checker 
should be case-INsensitive. If I did misread it and it was 
case-sensitive, then that solves my problem.
On the other hand, if it was case-insensitive, then I was wondering if 
we should remove duplicate entries in the dictionary as well when we 
rewrite to it.
Thanks!
-Wesley Sy (20219991)
<quote>"
    @mikewcaldwell: "On Jun 24, 12:38 pm, Wesley Samuel Sy <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
Ya it says case-insensitive. I'm guessing that the file they give us
will not all be one case, like they may have things like "Monsoon,
Hurricane", instead of "monsoon, hurricane". But I would like to know
if it is ok that when we write back to the dictionary file, we keep
everything in one case. Or do we have to keep the original dictionary
file intact as much as possible? So if the original dictionary file
contained "ToRnaDo, Tsunami", would it be ok if the dictionary file we
send back contains "tornado, tsunami"?"
    @bstpierr: "<quote>
We have to rearrange the whole dictionary file to be sorted anyway so
I don't think changing the stored case of a word is a big issue, so
long as your program still works properly with an altered dictionary
file."
    @cs246: "Just to re-iterate, it doesn't matter what case your resulting dictionary 
is in. It has to be sorted, that is the main requirement. Also, being 
case-insensitive, it shouldn't 
have duplicates like "house" and "House". You may assume that the 
dictionary that we give you has no duplicates (though it should hardly 
matter if your implementation is reasonable).
Ivan
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